It’s time for my annual list of digital history sessions at the American Historical Association meeting, this year in New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013. This year’s program extends last year’s surging interest in the effect digital media and technology are having on research and the profession. In addition, a special track for the 2013 meeting is entitled “The Public Practice of History in and for a Digital Age.” Looks like a good and varied program, including digital research methods (such as GIS, text mining, and network analysis), the construction and use of digital archives, the history of new media and its impact on social movements, scholarly communication, public history and writing for a general audience on the web, and practical concerns (e.g., getting grants for digital work).
Hope to see some of you there, and to interact with the rest of you about the meeting via other means. (Speaking of which, I hereby declare the hashtag to be #aha13. I know we care about exact dates, fellow historians, but we really don’t need that “20” in our hashtags.)
Thursday, January 3
9am-5pm
THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) AHA
1-3pm
3:30-5:30pm
Presidential Panel: H-Net and the Discipline: Changes and Challenges
8-10pm
Plenary Session: The Public Practice of History in and for a Digital Age
Friday, January 4
8:30-10am
Roundtable on Place in Time: What History and Geography Can Teach Each Other
Public History Meets Digital History in Post-Katrina New Orleans
“To See”: Visualizing Humanistic Data and Discovering Historical Patterns in a Digital Age
Viewfinding: A Discussion of Photography, Landscape, and Historical Memory
Scholarly Societies and Networking through H-Net
H-Net in Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Building New Online Audiences
Applying to NEH Grant Programs
10:30am-noon
Online Reviewing: Before and After It Was de Rigueur
The United States and Its Informants: The Cold War and the War on Terror
2:30-4:30pm
Front Lines: Early-Career Scholars Doing Digital History
From the March on Washington to Tahir Square and Beyond: Tactics, Technology, and Social Movements
Saturday, January 5
9-11am
H-Net in Africa: Building New Online Audiences
Scholarly Communications and Copyright
Research Support Services for History Scholars: A Study of Evolving Research Methods in History
Comparative Reflections on the History Major Capstone Experience: A Roundtable
The Power of Cartography: Remapping the Black Death in the Age of Genomics and GIS
11:30am-1:30pm
Mapping the Past: Historical Geographic Information Science (GIS)
Beyond “Plan B” for Renaissance Studies: A Roundtable
11:30am-2 – Poster Session 1
2:30-4:30pm
Peer Review, History Journals, and the Future of Scholarly Research
Space, Place, and Time: GIS Technology in Ancient and Medieval European History
Factionalism and Violence across Time and Space: An Exploration of Digital Sources and Methodologies
Connecting Classroom and Community: H-Net Networks and Public History
The Deep History of Africa: New Narrative Approaches
First Steps: Getting Started as a History Professional
Renegotiating Identity: The Process of Democratization in Postauthoritarian Spain and Portugal
2:30-5pm – Poster Session 2
Digital History: Tools and Tricks to Learn the New Trade
Building the Dissertation Digitally
Picturing a Transnational Pulp Archive
Sunday, January 6
8:30-10:30am
Building a Swiss Army Knife: A Panel on DocTracker, a Multi-Tool for Digital Documentary Editions
11am-1pm
Teaching Digital Methods for History Graduate Students
Public History in the Federal Government: Continuing Trends and New Innovations
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